{"id":1542,"date":"2014-02-20T17:51:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T21:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2014-02-20T17:51:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T21:51:12","slug":"why-cant-hollywood-be-more-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/why-cant-hollywood-be-more-original\/","title":{"rendered":"Why can&#8217;t Hollywood be more original?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By KYLA THORPE<\/p>\n<p>It seems to happen nearly every year. Movie producers in Hollywood are often doing reboots of films that were big hits.<\/p>\n<p>Why can&#8217;t they just leave the original film alone? Don&#8217;t they realize that it&#8217;s a little strange to recreate movies, with new actors, when the original actors are still alive and well, able to continue their previous roles?<\/p>\n<p>I can understand rebooting a film that was created 40 or more years ago. The film could&#8217;ve been terrible back then and producers want to make something big of it now. \u00a0Maybe Hollywood wants to bring a trend back, make some extra cash. I get it, it&#8217;s a business.<\/p>\n<p>What really annoys me is how movies that were <em>terrific<\/em>\u00a0not even more than 10 years ago are being remade into newer films with terrible reviews.<\/p>\n<p>For example, I remember seeing the original Spider-Man movie in the theater in 2002. I loved it. The world loved it. Tobey Maguire played this role until 2007, ending the series with Spider-Man 3.<\/p>\n<p>So why was it rebooted in 2012 and called the Amazing Spider-Man, with a new actor, Andrew Garfield?<\/p>\n<p>This is strange to me and confusing. Between the original Spider-Man and the Amazing Spider-Man, there isn&#8217;t even 10 years. They could&#8217;ve just asked Tobey Maguire to come back and restart the series!<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t Hollywood hire script writers to create new material? Are there no other superheroes within the Marvel or DC Comic Universe for them to create an extensive series about?<\/p>\n<p>The reason why I&#8217;m asking this question is that, today, the cast for the new Fantastic Four movie was released. The Fantastic Four movie, that I also saw in the theater, came out in 2005. The new one is slated for 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Reboots for movies that aren&#8217;t at least 20 years old are unnecessary. The point of a reboot is to make something better, to bring it more to life.<\/p>\n<p>Reboots are usually rated lower, have around the same CGI and have similar story lines where the audience is not at all very surprised by the ending.<\/p>\n<p>When will Hollywood stop doing this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By KYLA THORPE It seems to happen nearly every year. Movie producers in Hollywood are often doing reboots of films that were big hits. Why can&#8217;t they just leave the original film alone? Don&#8217;t they realize that it&#8217;s a little &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/why-cant-hollywood-be-more-original\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[5,6,28],"class_list":["post-1542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kyla-thorpe","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment-news","tag-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}